Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge – Our First Color Challenge!

Happy Tuesday!  Twilight Tuesday has a really cool thing happening for today – our very first Color Challenge!  The challenge colors for this week feature the colors of lovely Edward’s features.  Alison is our hostess this week; check out her description below: 

The first color is Butterscotch for his eyes (when he isn’t hungry!), second is Alabaster for his pale, pale skin, and third is Reddish-Brown for his fabulous hair!

As always, be sure to visit the lovely members of our Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team to see what they have in store for this week’s challenge! 

Alison ~ Beth ~ Dani ~ Donna ~Erica ~ Jen ~ Jodi ~Margie ~ Rebecca

And here is my project for this week – an ode to Edward.  Hehe.  It seems that every so often I need to do an ode to Edward, and this is my New Moon-era version. 

This card looks better in person – I could never get an accurate photo of all the glitter!  But see that glitter cardstock there?  This stuff is the nicest glitter paper EVER.  I transported this stuff home with me all the way from Texas!  (Tonya!  Hey girl!)  During my visit with Tonya,  of course we had to do a little crafty shopping, and I found this glitter paper at a store local to her.  It’s the BEST – it’s sort of soft to the touch and the glitter does not fall off of the paper.  I don’t know how they do it – you’re usually covered with glitter when you use paper like this! The paper is made by a company called Best Creation – look for it!  Trust me – it’s amazing stuff – SO bright and sparkly! 

I only wish you could see the glitter better on this card!  It is so very bright and shiny in real life that I had to stop myself from embellishing the card any further!  I used a gold glitter cardstock (covering the Butterscotch for Edward’s eyes) and a bronze glitter shade (for the Reddish-Brown of his hair).  Some Bazzill Bling paper in an “Alabaster” shade called String of Pearls stands in for that pale Cullen skin tone.  That is the shade of the embossed background of the card.

I was absolutely THRILLED with this sentiment (Beauty is Soul-Deep) for Edward – does that capture him or what?  He doesn’t seem to fully comprehend his beauty, nor does he really believe (at some points in the books, at least) that he is capable of having a soul.   But we, the readers, know better, don’t we?  Of course we do!

Thanks so much for visiting – have a great day!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Creamy Caramel cardstock; Best Creation glitter cardstock in gold and bronze; Bazzill Bling in String of Pearls

Stamps:  Artful INKables from the Fictionally Inspired set (Edward name stamp); sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:  Brilliance Ink in Coffee Bean, Papertrey Ink Vintage Touch distressing inks

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Sizzix embossing folder, Cuttlebug tag die, Cuttlebug Vintage corner die, Spellbinders Fancy Tag die, and Spellbinders Nestabilities petite oval die; brad; EK Success corner punch.

Photo of Robert Pattinson from The Twilight Saga: New Moon, property of Summit Entertainment

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 51 – Edward Cullen’s Greatest Hits

Hello everyone!  It’s Twilight Tuesday time – I have been away from my blog for a few days and it’s so nice to be back!  Today’s challenge has a really nice theme – it’s all about Edward.  We have covered Edward so many ways in so many different challenge themes, but we had yet to do a theme solely focused on his character. 

As always, be sure to visit our awesome Design Team to see what they have to display for this week!

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~ Eve ~ Jacquie ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

(Erica is off this week and will return next week.)

So Jen issues the challenge for this week:

So for this challenge I want you to focus on your connection to Edward. What does his character mean to you?

For the creative challenge: Create a project that focuses on Edward.

For the comment portion: How do you feel about Edward’s character? Is it like, love or disdain? Have you read the partial draft of Midnight Sun? What did you think about reading the story from his point of view?

So what does the character of Edward Cullen mean to me?  Edward IS the Twilight saga to me; that is all there is to it.  I have worked Edward into as many of the past Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenges as you could imagine, so I just had to do a little retrospective of the projects today.

Here is my very first entry to the world of the Twilight Tuesday challenges – here is TTIC3, about “Edward’s meadow.” Another early challenge – "Whose Team Are You On?"  And my answer – so obvious. This challenge (TTIC12) was to choose our favorite Twilight quotes, so I just had to turn to Midnight Sun, which, although incomplete, is still my favorite part of the Twilight Saga.  Again – me = Edward-centric. Here is my project for the "Twilight Music" challenge – I had to go with Edward and Bella’s Lullaby. And for Twilight baseball? Yep, went with Edward again. Here is his baseball "scouting report;" the vampire baseball league was very interested in recruiting him. And this one was for the challenge on "Our Favorite Twilight Things" and I continue with my super-obvious choices and went with this guy — And I saved this one for last because it’s one my faves.  This digital layout was for the challenge on the ballet studio scene from Twilight.  I really like the story this one tells – I used small images at the bottom of the layout to show the process he goes through in that scene.  I think that Edward’s ability to save Bella from James’ venom is a serious turning point for the character.  After this occurs, he seems to realize that he won’t be able to hurt Bella after all since his love for her outweighs the temptation.  Sigh.  Oh, Edward.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 45 – Name Your Challenge!

Happy Tuesday! Tonya‘s given us a fun challenge theme for this week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge — we pick our own theme this time! Get all the details, as well as some news about our Design Team, here. Also, today marks the return of the lovely Margie to the Design Team after a brief time off, and it’s great to have her back!

I’m getting a  little nostalgic today for this challenge!  I thought that this was a good time to show you my very first Twilight Tuesday project!  This is from October 2008, and was never posted here as I had yet to start blogging at that point.  This challenge was TTIC3 – yes, 42 challenges ago! – and the theme was The Meadow.  Days before this, I had learned about the challenges when I came across some TTIC projects in the Splitcoast gallery, and that is how I met Tonya and the other members of the then-smaller Design Team. 

And speaking of our Design Team – visit them today to see the lovely projects that they’ve come up with for this challenge!

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~ Eve ~ Erica

Jacquie ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

So, back to the project.  Because I love to keep things Edward-centric, I had to turn to Midnight Sun to get his perspective on being in the meadow with Bella, so I pulled out the following quote and used it on the card:

"Bella was with me there. She stared at me, rainbows dancing across her face, her eyes fathomless…"

I found a photo online that really represented the meadow to me; this is very close to how I pictured it while reading, although it’s actually a location in England!  I love this photo and ended up using it on another TTIC project (about the Twilight villains) that related to the meadow.  (You might have to look hard to find the meadow, though – click to enlarge.)

What I Used:

Paper:  Bazzill cardstock

Stamps:  none; quote from Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer; computer-generated using the font Edwardian

Ink:  Versacolor Bisque

Accessories:  Cuttlebug with Fiskars texture leaves texture plate; Stampin’ Up! ticket corner punch; ribbon; dimensionals; Kaiser pearls

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 37– A Little Romance

Happy Tuesday!  Our lovely and talented guest Design Team member Donna brings us this week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme  – the romance of the Twilight saga.  to get your imaginations working, Donna quotes this excerpt from Wuthering Heights, a book that plays a role in the story of Edward and Bella:

"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day."

Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

For the creative portion of the challenge — do you have a favorite Edward and Bella, Jacob and Bella, or an Alice and Jasper romantic moment? Create something that celebrates their love.  Or you can create something for, or inspired by, a special person in your life that you love.

For the comment portion of the challenge — tell us about your most favorite romantic moment…be it in the books or real life.

For all of the details on the challenge and how to play along, please visit Twilight Tuesday.com and join in!  As always, stop by the blogs of the Twilight Tuesday Design Team to see what they’ve come up with for this week:

Dani ~ Eve ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna

Note:  Tonya is sitting out from the challenge this week, but she’s working on something interesting that you’ll see soon!  You’ll see some other names missing from the list as well; they are sitting out this week.

For my project, I wanted to focus on the meadow scene in Twilight.  It is the scene of Stephenie Meyer’s dream that inspired the entire story, after all!  The meadow is the turning point for Edward and Bella – after this, they are a couple.  I love all the conversations that Edward and Bella have in the book that bond them together, especially in the meadow scene.  (It seemed that they didn’t really have time to fit those in to the movie, unfortunately.)

I found a photo from the movie with Edward in mid-sparkle and used the new Artful INKables “dazzled” stamp from their new Into the Moonlight set.  A big thank you goes out to Tonya, who gave me the clever idea of using paper piecing on the heart stamp when I was stuck!  I can’t tell  you how many photos I took of this card – I just could not get a good shot of the card.  I finally settled on one, but it’s not so great.  It’s a very shiny card – the background is a silver metallic, the green paper in the foreground is a shimmery green color, and the “dazzled” heart is really glittery with the help of Stickles.  And the ribbons and the Dew Drops are metallic as well – I think that these things just don’t photograph well.

Card details:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock, Stampin’ Up! Baja Breeze cardstock, Bazzill Bling in Sparkle; The Paper Company silver cardstock

Stamps:  Artful INKables Into the Moonlight set

Ink:  Ranger Archival Ink in black, Encore Metallic Ink in silver

accessories:  Cuttlebug – floral fantasy embossing folder, Nestabilities Long Rectangle dies; Stampin’ Up! ticket corner punch; Dew Drops in metallic silver; dimensionals; ribbon; Stickles in Diamond; EK Success border punch

Special Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge: Featuring Artful INKables

Heard the big news yet? 

We at Twilight Tuesday are so excited to announce that we have a partner for today’s challenge — Artful INKables!

To celebrate the release of their two new stamp sets called Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired, Twilight Tuesday is working with the Artful INKables team on today’s challenge!

Visit Artful INKables‘ store to check them out and get your own sets! You’ll also want to check out their beautiful new Vampire Romance-Themed Pewter Charms Set.

And you have got to get yourself to Twilight Tuesday to check out the amazing blog candy we have to offer.  Artful INKables has donated three sets of stamps and one set of charms for us to give away. 

And finally, the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme this week —

The theme for this week’s challenge (TTIC36) is What Says Twilight To You?

So many things say “Twilight” to the multitudes of Twilight fans. What images do you think of when you think about the Twilight books and movies? For some, Twilight means an apple, for some, the chess piece on the cover of Breaking Dawn, and for others, Bella’s truck conjures up the Twilight mood. Many fans love to express their Twilight love by choosing a “team” to root for, and others have favorite quotes from the book that are near and dear to them. For the craft portion of the challenge: create a piece that expresses what comes to mind when YOU think of the Twilight saga. For the comment portion of the challenge: Many people often say that reading the Twilight saga has been life-changing. Please share how the saga has changed your own life or made you view life in a different way.

And of course, this week the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team has used Artful INKables’ new stamp sets for their projects. Check out today’s projects:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

And we’ve been SO inspired by these new stamp sets that our Design Team has created lots of additional projects with them this week! For this special occasion, we will be featuring these projects here (and on the Design Team members’ personal blogs) for the next week! Can you tell we’re excited about all of this?

Don’t forget that today’s challenge is a team effort, with members of the Artful INKables Design Team playing along with these new stamps as well!

Kristin, owner of Artful INKables ~Joy ~Elena ~ Holly ~ Joanne ~ Velta

Finally, my own project.  I am still on the Bind-it-All kick, and now that I’m into making books, I HAD to make one for TTIC!  I’ve been dreaming this one up for a long time now.

And as for what says Twilight to me – Bella and Edward.  It’s all about them for me (really, it’s all about Edward, but I am trying to be fair).  This book is my little tribute to Bella and  Edward – the heart of the Twilight Saga.

This 6-page, 6x 6” book is covered with fabric and features an Artful Inkables stamp, from the Fictionally Inspired set, on each page.   I love using quotes and am so thrilled to now have these quote stamps!   I am sorry that some of my photos are not the best; there are so many sparkly, metallic elements to this book that they just don’t work well in a photo.

Quote stamp:  If I could dream at all, it would be about you.

Quote stamp:  Look after my heart, I’ve left it with you.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge: Catch-Up Week

This week we are having a catch up week for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge.  We will resume next week with a new challenge theme. 

So this week, go back through our previous challenges and select one that you weren’t able to do, or one that you’d like to explore further, and create a project based on that.  Or, you could also display a favorite past TTIC project of yours (as I did, below) – whatever you like!

Here is a list of our previous challenges:

1. Rosalie Hale
2. Forks High School
3. Edward’s Meadow
4. Alice Cullen
5. Which team are you on?
6. Rain
7. Emmett Cullen
8. Bella Swan
9. Twilight the Movie
10. Which Twilight heroine are you?
11. A Very Cullen Christmas
12. Twilight Quotes
13. Supporting characters
14. Baseball
15. Twilight cars
16. Twilight music
17. Jacob Black
18. Twilight Valentine’s
19. The Villains
20. Italy
21. Renee Dwyer
22. Bella’s Birthday
23. St. Patrick’s Day
24. Carlisle Cullen
25. Celebrate Your favorites
26. The Void
27. Jasper Hale
28. Bella and Edward’s Wedding
29. Bella and Jacob as BFF’s
30. The Ballet Studio
31. Graduation
32. The Great Northwest
33. New Moon Quotes

And as always, our Design Team has fantastic projects to display for this week’s challenge – please go and check them out!

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

This week, I wanted to revisit TTIC12, our favorite quotes from the entire Twilight saga, from back in December 2008.  You can see my original post on this challenge here.  I chose to use a quote from Midnight Sun – my favorite of the whole series.  I can’t even begin to get into a “please, Stephenie, finish this!” thing; suffice it to say that I would be REALLY happy if she would.  But, hey, that’s her call, so I’ll move on.

I chose a quote from Midnight Sun that I thought was a big turning-point for Edward:

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

Oh, Edward.  Sigh.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 33, Quotes from New Moon

Hey everyone!  It’s nice to be back for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge!  I really  missed doing last week’s  challenge, so I’m happy to get back into the swing of things for this week’s theme.  Our theme was chosen by the awesome Beth, and it is to make a project based on our favorite quote from New Moon.  And I’m really happy that this week is New Moon-related, because then it gives me a chance to post the gorgeous movie poster! 

As always, visit the talented members of the Twilight Tuesday design team to see what they have created for this week:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

The quote I chose for this week is:

I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

Bella Swan, page 451

I was clear for this week that I did not want to focus on the angst of New Moon (just not up for that at the moment), so I chose something from the moment when Bella sees Edward for the first time in Volterra.  (Click to enlarge the layout.)  What a great moment – one that I am really looking forward to seeing on the screen in November.  What scenes are you looking forward to seeing in the movie?  My list is too long – there are so many huge, dramatic scenes in the book that could work really well on film.  I can’t wait.

Layout Details:

Paper & Frame – RetroDiva

Diamond Heart – Graphx Fairy

Quote – in the font Pablo, from New Moon, page 451, by Stephenie Meyer

Photos – property of Summit Entertainment

Looking for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge?

I am sorry to say that I have to sit out the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge today.   Edward wanted to let you know that I’ll be “out of town for a couple of days, for personal reasons.”

You can find all of the details for this week’s challenge here, and please visit the other Design Team members to see what they’ve come up with for this week:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

I’ll be back soon and will hopefully catch up with this challenge – see you all soon.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 31 – Graduation

Rebecca has come up with our theme this week – graduation.  Rebecca said that she got her inspiration from the moment in the movie when Bella spots the collage of graduation caps at the Cullen home.  You can find all the information on the challenge here, and be sure to visit the blogs of the other members of the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team to see their projects for this week:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

For this challenge I made a masculine graduation card, inspired by…wait for it…Edward.  Surprise! 

I wanted to make something with an old-world, vintage look, because, after all, Edward technically should have graduated from high school in around 1918-1919.  I knew what colors I wanted to use for this card for a few reasons – I had already had this designer paper in mind (since it is already very vintage-looking).  I also like to get that topaz color in there as a little nod to Edward and his eyes (the Dew Drops).  And finally, the colors of Forks High School are blue and gold.  How do I know this?  From a little research done for this card, from Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #5, way back in October 2008.   (Geeky enough for you?)

The quote that I used for today’s card is from Ralph Waldo Emerson (a famous resident of Concord, Massachusetts, right down the road from me):

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something  else is the greatest accomplishment.

I chose this quote because not only did it seem suitable for a graduation card, but it really seemed to reflect the Cullens and the choices they had made to live amongst humans.  Edward and his family spent decades fighting against their natures, working to be better than others of their kind (sort of quote from movie-Edward).  And…they succeeded.  Quite an accomplishment.

Card details:

Paper:  Stampin’ Up! Night of Navy and Kraft cardstock; Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock;

K & Co. Blue Awning designer paper

Stamp:  Stampin’ Up! French Script

Ink:  Stampin’ Up! Sahara Sand; Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Nestabilities Labels 1 dies; dimensionals; ribbon; Dew Drops

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 30 – The Ballet Studio Scene

Dani came up with a really creative challenge theme for us this week – the  ballet scene in Twilight.   You have to love the ones that get  you thinking!  Click here for all of the challenge info, and visit the blogs of the design team to see what they’ve prepared for this week:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

Because I’m me, my project focuses on Edward’s point of view during the ballet studio scene.  While I was working on this layout, I kept thinking of Midnight Sun – if it ever gets FINISHED (and yeah, it’s hard to hide my impatience on this) – we could hear all about what Edward goes through during this scene!  But…I should move on.

My goal with this digital layout was to portray Edward’s experience during the ballet studio scene.  So on this layout, I’ve included photos from some key moments for Edward – the moment after he arrives there when he sees that Bella is hurt, watching James bite Bella, discussing his options with Carlisle, and finally – his biting of Bella to remove the venom from James.  When Edward expresses his fear of being unable to stop biting Bella and therefore killing her, Carlisle tells him that he will find the will, hence the title.  I find that scene so moving – when “Let Me Sign” begins…oh, man.  I centered this layout around that beautiful image that appears in the movie during this moment – Bella and Edward laying in the snow.  So serene and pretty.

Layout details:

All photos property of Summit Entertainment

Font: Carmilla

Overlay:  Designer Digitals